UFC 91 Fighter pay days – Lesnar is top earner at $450,000

Published on: 17th November, 2008

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Brock earns $450K

Here is something that has not surfaced in a while. It’s fighter pay days at UFC 91 where new UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar has earned the money for his victory over the former title holder Randy Couture. Lesnar was the top earner on the card with a $250,000 base salary and an extra winning bonus of another $200,000 to total his salary of $450,000. As for Couture, he came in second with a salary of $250,000, but should Randy had won the fight it was reported that he would have got a win bonus of $250,000, but that as we all know did not happen.

Here are the rest of the fighter salaries for UFC 91:

Main Card

• Champion Brock Lesnar ($450,000) defeats Randy Couture ($250,000)
• Kenny Florian ($80,000) defeats Joe Stevenson ($35,000)
• Gabriel Gonzaga ($110,000) defeats Josh Hendricks ($8,000)
• Dustin Hazelett ($28,000) defeats Tamdan McCrory ($10,000)
• Demian Maia ($40,000) defeats Nate Quarry ($25,000)

Undercard

• Aaron Riley ($8,000) defeats Jorge Gurgel ($10,000)
• Jeremy Stephens ($16,000) defeats Rafael dos Anjos ($4,000)
• Mark Bocek ($18,000) defeats Alvin Robinson ($7,000)
• Matt Brown ($16,000) defeats Ryan Thomas ($3,000)

As mentioned fighters salaries do not include licenses, taxes and sponsorship as these are only the salaries of the fighters that are reported by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

$60,000 fight bonuses were given out to Aaron Riley and Jorge Gurgel for “Fight of the Night”. Dustin Hazelett for “Submission of the Night” and Jeremy Stephens for “Knockout of the Night”. These bonuses were not included on the fighters salaries as well.

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